[Los Grak]

Well, I've now joined the ranks of many of our members here. My 360 is showing me 3 flashing red lights and just before that the screen froze up on me. Couple that with the fact that the MS repair site is telling me that my system is out of warranty (it was manufactured on 3/6/07, which is still within the three years extended by MS to 360 owners), I am not a happy guy. They'll be getting a call from me tomorrow so I can dispute the warranty thing.

[Ricker]

Los Grak, on 06 February 2010 - 05:17 AM, said:

Well, I've now joined the ranks of many of our members here. My 360 is showing me 3 flashing red lights and just before that the screen froze up on me. Couple that with the fact that the MS repair site is telling me that my system is out of warranty (it was manufactured on 3/6/07, which is still within the three years extended by MS to 360 owners), I am not a happy guy. They'll be getting a call from me tomorrow so I can dispute the warranty thing.

Same thing happened to me this week...this is one of my original 360,that already had been sent twice for repairs but now it`s not under warranty anymore...found a local guy here that repairs the RROD for 50 but his fix lasted for 4 months...so I greenbagged the freaking thing and I will personally throw the piece of crap in the garbage truck next time it comes around

Good luck with the repair guy...I tried,with 2 different persons but they never changed their minds.

This post has been edited by Ricker: 06 February 2010 - 05:04 AM

[Jerome]

That sucks. I'm sure you'll get the warranty repair. Unless of course you bought the console before it was manufactured, and have had it beyond the 3 years

[Los Grak]

I got the repair. I'll just have to ship it off on Monday.

[Los Grak]

So, I sent out my system last Thursday and MS says that I should have it back tomorrow or Thursday. I had to give them a call because something disturbed me about my repair status: the serial number on the console that they're sending me is different than the one that I sent them.

So, of course I called and asked about it and confirmed that they are sending me a refurbished system, rather than my old system in a repaired state. They claimed that my system was unrepairable. I wonder if they said the same thing to the guy that used to own the system I'm about to receive later this week.

I'm fairly upset about receiving a refurbished system, especially considering the stories that I've heard from around here, with people having had to send in their systems for repair multiple times. I think someone is up to, what, 6 times now? I'm gonna be so pissed when this replacement system craps out on me after seeing only the moderate usage that I gave the previous one. I mean, it took almost three years for my 360 to die. So this replacement system will end up being far out of warranty by the time it craps out.

Also, if this replacement system has a MFG date prior to my dead system, I'm going to explode.

[GunnerX]

Well guess what. My fucking Elite did the same shit last night. Started playing COD:MW2 and the screen froze. Turned it off then restarted and got the 3 red blinking lights.

[tripwire]

Wow holy cow are you serious GunnerX? I thought they had fixed the problem w/ the Elites. WTF is going over there at MS. I can't believe they haven't gotten this shit fixed yet. I can't believe that they don't know what the problem is - considering they were willing to set aside a BILLION dollars aside for this, they should spend some money and actually fix the bloody hardware! In fact, the 3 year warranty for red light problem should REFRESH! every time it happens to you.

Los Grak: maybe you'll get lucky and get a better machine back. It's probly faster this way vs waiting for them to actually fix your machine. And what's to say that even if they fixed your machine and sent that back to you, that it won't die again? It's a shitty crapshoot, you might as well as get sthg back to play with vs waiting IMHO.

[NEC Avenue]

Wow that sucks for you guys.

I will probably sell my Falcon this year to buy a Jasper, don't want to wait until it dies because it probably will.

This post has been edited by NEC Avenue: 17 February 2010 - 09:28 PM

[ClintonDMB]

Hope your new systems lasts longer. When I sent mine in my same system came back but it had a new drive and the better heat sink on the GPU. though it hardly gets any play these days. My best friend Alicia has sent her back 3 times and her first system was DOA and had to be exchanged. With GT5 coming out having the top gear test track on it I am tempted more and more to get a PS3 but the fail rate of the 360 makes them worthless for resale.

[Jerome]

I was fortunate to get my same system back, when my second 360 got the RRoD (my first system went back to Best Buy for a replacement off the shelf). Hopefully, if you're getting a refurbished system, it's in good condition and like you said, isn't older then the system you sent in. If that happened to me I'd probably turn around and sell it, and just get a Jasper Arcade Unit... or ditch the 360 all-together. Microsoft doesn't seem to want people's loyal business. j/k

[Los Grak]

I got the system back today. The MFG date was the first thing I checked on it and to my dismay found that, instead of the MFG date, it has a Service Date of 2/4/10. They replaced the SN sticker to show the Service Date, SN and Console Number.

Anyway, I went through the whole boot up and set up sequence and began following the instructions for re-licensing my downloaded content. Once that was complete I disconnected from XBL, checked my games and none of them were available for play.

I was under the impression that, once I downloaded the games again, the games would be available for play on all of the accounts on my system whether I was connected to XBL or not. At least, that's what the sheet of paper with the DRM instructions on it was telling me. Am I missing something?

[Jerome]

I think you have to go somewhere on the Xbox Live website and do something, and THEN re-download your content to move the license over.

[ClintonDMB]

so they're putting a "serviced on" date on the systems now... interesting.

[GunnerX]

Does that mean it resets the Warranty from the Serviced on Date?

[whippingboy]

I doubt that- but who knows? I'm on my 3rd. My 2nd was an elite bought when GTA 4 came out- died when COD:MW2 came out- (bought another elite) luckily I had the BB warranty on my 2nd. Pretty sad when you hear how many Xbox's brick. The real installed userbase may be 5mil units off at least!

[Los Grak]

So, does anyone know where I need to go or what I need to do to transfer my DRM to my "new" system?

And to answer the question about the warranty: my replacement system has a warranty that lasts until some time in May of this year.

[thengodisseven]

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.xbox.com/...censemigration/

[Los Grak]

Thanks, tgi7.

[NEC Avenue]

Can you take your existing Xbox HDD and put it into a new Xbox and have it work without needing to do anything?

[Los Grak]

Yes. The purpose of transferring licenses is so that you can access your marketplace content in the event that you can't connect to XBL for some reason. As of now the only thing I have access to when not connected to XBL is the copy of Hexic that came with my system.